While political ad spending, the Superbowl and ad pricing growth lifted the results for CBS-owned TV stations and CBS Radio, cable networks benefited from continued subscriber growth and higher subscription pricing.

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Instead of trying to maintain a constant stream of communications with a subscriber, the satellites simply receive short messages and zap them down to one of their ground stations on earth.

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